A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §551

Annotatio IV §.XII: Orthodox opposition — Constantinople; FIGURE OF CHRIST’S BODY vs all images

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Meanwhile truly Orthodox (Scripture-clinging) opposed Damascene’s flood of errors in the same Eighth age.

Gathered at Constantinople (fifth / Greeks’ seventh Oecumenical; Copronymus and Leo Isaurian — Spanheim vindicates them): by the FIGURE OF CHRIST’S BODY they set in the Supper they tried to abolish every sacred use of images.

Latin

Intereà deviantibus ita à veritate multijuga, Damasceno & asseclis quàm plurimis, eodem seculo Octavo, errorum flumini, universam Ecclesiam inundaturo, sese opposuere verè Orthodoxi, i. e. Scripturæ S. pressius inhærentes haud pauci, dum sedibus suis undique exciti, Constantinopolim convenerunt Concilium, ab hac Civitate denominatum quintum, Græcis Oecumenicum septimum dictum, sub Constant. Copronymo & Leone Isaurico, à varia fama & æstimationis suæ proterva laceratione per Spanhemium nostrum vindicatis, celebratum; Hi per FIGURAM CORPORIS CHRISTI quam in Cœna statuebant, omnem figurarum seu Imaginum omnium usum sacrum abrogare éque medio tollere conabantur,

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Samuel Strimesius — Prefatio through Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. III-XIII + XV Tolerantia, Hexades Annotationum Prooemium and Annotatio I through Decem Theses / Francus plus Annotatio II §.I-§.VI and Annotatio III §.I–§.VII (through Cassellanum 1661) from Ingenua in Controversias Evangelicorum (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1708). Honest partial; Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio III §.VIII+ fruits / §.IX+, Hexades theses body, deeper Controversiae / Part II remain.

English follows the locked 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. III–XV tip (providence through De Tolerantia mutua; Controv. print pp. 40–78), Hexades Annotationum Prooemium H.I–§.III (Hexades print pp. 1–4 / PDF ~182–185), and Annotatio I De Augustana Confessione §.I–§.VIII tip (Hexades print pp. 5–24+ / PDF ~186–205+), reconstructed from Google Books PDF page images (ONB copy, id 3epYAAAAcAAJ) with pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only. Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio I §.IX+, Hexades theses body beyond §.VIII, and remainder of Controversiae / folio remain.

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